Ed-tech startup Schoolguru raises $3M from family offices

Schoolguru Eduserve Pvt. Ltd, a provider of e-learning services to universities, said on Wednesday it has secured Rs 20 crore ($3 million) in a Series A round of funding from family offices of affluent individual investors based in India and the US. The company will use the capital to enhance its technology platform and expand its digital library, it said. Mumbai-based Schoolguru was founded in 2012 by Shantanu Rooj, Ravi Rangan and Anil Bhat to help universities launch, run and manage ICT-enabled and online programmes on its managed platform. Rooj is an IIM-Calcutta graduate, while Rangan is from BITS Pilani and Bhat is from MS University. All three were working with Glodyne Technoserve prior to launching the startup. “We have plans to offer services of our platform not only to…